The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A HISDoo WEDDING was a recent attraction in
the Methodist church at Marion, la.
PROF. GEsELscHAP will receive 925 900 for
frescoing the cupola of the Berlin arsenal.
A FIRM at Pottstown, Pa, is building an Iron
bridge which will be shipped to China in sec.
tions.
EuRoPE's population is 337, 200, 900, according
TO reports prepared for the International Sta
tistIcal Congress.
A SICK HORSE belonging to the Sheriff's van
has been kept eleye months by San Francisco
at an expense of 5000 to the city treasury.
A DOG in Jackson, Tenn, is trained to bark a
chorus to a French harp and does it to queens
taste He is in the habit of taking daily
bath.
In a divorce case at Lafayette, Ind, one wit
ness by agreement, twas sworn and gave his tes-
timony by telephone, being too busy to attend
court in person.
AMERICA now holds the championship in lawn
tennis, croquet prize-fghting, chess, base ball,
yachting trottiug and several other fine arts of
minor Importance.
AN APPLE TREE at Woodbowine, Sullivan
county, N. Y, is fourteen feet five and half
inches in circumference, fifty feet in height, and
has been bearing fruit for seventy years.
WITHIN forty years the per capita consump-
SO per cent, the consumption of wine has in
creased 40 per cent, and OF beer 700 per cent.
The eightieth wedding anniversary of Manuel
Barriant, of Matamoras ILL.,, was recently cele-
hrated. The husband is in the best of health at
102, while the wife enjoys the same blessing at
&c.
D. NJ HUNTER of Mt. Morris, Mich, owns a
colt which has no eyes, having been born in that
unfortunate condition. It is now over year
old. and rather more intelligent than the ordi-
nary equine.
A SUBMARINE tunnel between Scotland and
Ireland is again being discussed The latest
proposal is TO run the boring from the Null of
Cantyre to Fair Head in Antrim, about ten
miles distance.
JOHNS HOPKINS University holds II. 900 shares
of Baltimore and Ohio stock, which has steadily
yielded S136, 900 in income. The institution may
really be much crippled by the depreciation OF
this investment.
THE royal forests must GO A gentleman
writes to Truth protesting against the gates of
Windsor forest being locked against him, for
which, as tax payer, he pays taxes. The gates
will doubtless open before long.
A LADY on the steamer Suevia Just in from
Europe, gave birth during the voyage to twins
sea-born, lusty boy and pink mermaid of
girl. The lady's husband is in Hong Kong,
A VIOLIN MAKER in France, much of whose
goods find their way to this country, says the
instruments cost him 80 cents each, and that
the profit he has in selling them to the trade at
the rate of SLIP each is satisfactory to him.
CHEToPA, KAN, has gentlemen's club. Each
member pays So a month to the manager, and
he buys liquor in barrels, bottles it, and al
lows each member so many bottles per month.
The County Attorney is now after the manager.
A CRAZY woman. whowas agent for book on
the lunatic asylums of the country, struck
Vcksburg, Miss, few days ago. She entered
the telephone office, chased all the telephone
girls out, and shut off telephone communica-
ton for an hour.
ROANOKE COLLEGE of Salem, Va, has oponed
with every indication of an unusually success
full year. Students come to Roanoke from great
distances. Some are from Utah and some from
Mexico, and the Choctaw delegation is to re-
ceive several additions.
Down in Douglas county, Missouri, there are
three children whose aggregate weight is 625
pounds. They are all girls, aged respectively
IA, IL and years. The mother weighs 40
pounds. On each hand of the two younger chill
dren are six fully developed fingers.
A PRISONER before California court lately
on a charge of murder was permitted TO retire
in company with a deputy sheriff to a neighbor-
ing saloon while tine jury was celebrating. He
is said to have returned intoxicated, and in this
condition heard the verdict of manslaughter
passed upon him.
THE watermelon fleet is great institution in
Chesapeake Bay. 1t comprises about eighty
vessels The season opens about the first week
in August, and for nearly two months the bay
is flied with these boats loaded down with
melons. They carry from 1900 to s, 900 melons
each and give employment to several hundred
men,
CAPT. JACK CRAWFORD, ex-United States
scout, explains that among scouts and the
braves to wear long hair is considered mark
of defiance to the enemy and is interpreted as
meaning, Here is my scalp, with a convenient
handle to it, come and take it II you can" A
short-h haired man, he says, is looked upon as a
coward
O. w. MATHEwsoN of DeKalb, ILL.,, has tame
maltese rabbit which will fight most anything
from a mouse up to an elephant 1t recently
had bone to pick with a hound. Waiting until
the hound was wrapped in slumber it quietly
approached jumped on the hounds back, and
made the fur fly in a manner which would be
caution to rats
THE day before the solar eclipse the following
advertisement of a restaurant keeper appeared
in the Weimar Deutschland: Il shall be on
hand ON the Barenhugel early tomorrow for
the solar eclipse with fine cut of Mocha and a
stiff grog. delightful panorama of all the
surroundings, including roast sausages. If de-
sired card tables will be ready"
The white topaz found near PlkeS Peak is
almost equal in value to the diamond Not
many people know this; but ST. Louis man
found topaz on the banks of the Platte river
this summer and sent it to a lapdary in New
York to have it cut. 1t weighed S2S carats and
the lapidary sent back word that he would give
$500 for it. The offer was refused.
THERE seems to be an agricultural reaction
from the West to the East predicted by judges
of farming land. In proof of this the town
clerk in a town near st. Adams, Vt. has re-
ceived letter from an Iowa farmer inquir-
ing for farms, and announcing his intention
to sell out and return TO the Green Mountain
State, confident that he can better his con
dtion.
SOME of the forrest Tories have been attempt
ing to boycott Lord Randolph Churchill and
Lords Feversham and Londesborough refused
to preside at meeting at which Lord Randolph
was to speak. The Tories in North Hunts bow
cotted the Liberals to degree never attempted
in Ireland. Laborcr5 who would not wear the
Tory colors could not get work and Liberal
traveller couldn't get food for his horses.
In Guadabajara, Mexico, young man, Ros
endo Velez, mounted a horse in front of the door
Of his house. The animal reared aud threw its
rider on the hard pavement. Velez carried in
his breast pocket dagger without a sheath
In falling the blade of tine dagger entered his
breast and was driven through one of the lungs
He raised himself from the ground pulled ont
the weapon. and fell and died in the presence of
his family
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